Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 207: The Prince Comes

Two days later, Dr. Perente finally found out why the Kingdom of Ovieras had declared war on the anti-Olympic alliance. When the envoy sent by the Kingdom of Ovilas visited the Kingdom of Nasri, he was humiliated not only by cold treatment, but also by the envoy of the Kingdom of Hicks in King Tingli. The envoy of the Kingdom of Hicks came to conclude a civil commercial trade agreement with the Kingdom of Nasseri and met with the envoy of the Kingdom of Auvellas at the Royal Court, where a confrontation broke out over disrespect for the words of the two parties, leading to a duel.

Unfortunately, the envoy of the kingdom of Ovilas, a civilian origin, had suffered the fall of the nobility of the kingdom of Nasserli at the same time as the angry duel had failed. For a moment, he could not help but draw his sword and commit suicide in King Ting. As masters, the Kingdom of Nasserley should have stopped the clashes between the two kingdoms' envoys, and as a result, instead of suspending the dueling demands of the Hicks envoys against the envoys of the Kingdom of Auvellas, they even fuelled them by forcing them to accept dueling in order not to damage the reputation of the Kingdom of Auvellas. And when the duel failed and was seriously injured and scolded with ridicule by the nobility of the surrounding kingdom of Nasserli, he persisted in drawing his sword and did not bear the name of Gangyi.

It was only then that the sober minds of the nobility of the Kingdom of Nasserli realized that something terrible was wrong. Indeed, the Special Envoy followed the convergence of the Special Envoy's body back to the Kingdom, and once the news reached him, it was a boiling event for the nation. Speaking before the National Assembly, Sterling X described the incident as a total humiliation of the Kingdom of Auvellas and announced that, as of today, the peace agreement with the A5 would be suspended and that the Kingdom of Auvellas would declare war on the A5.

This was four or five days ago. The world is not ready for you to send troops to attack enemy countries as soon as you declare war. Of course, if you declare war on this side, then you can attack already. Generally speaking, however, declarations of war mean that national mobilization, the expansion of regiments and the dispatch of troops to attack enemy countries can take time. Moreover, the Kingdom of Orvilas did not deliberately declare war this time, but rather provoked the anger of the Kingdom due to the sudden events of the Special Envoy, which led Sterling X to address the National Assembly and declare war...

The news of the declaration of war in the Kingdom of Ovieras spread throughout the eastern part of the Farea continent in two days, and the five anti-Olympic countries soon issued a proclamation accepting the declaration of war by the Kingdom of Ovieras and commencing national mobilization, enlisting troops and declaring war on the Kingdom of Ovieras. This means that the wars between the Kingdom of Ovieras and the Anti-Olympic Five have begun, another war that has engulfed the entire eastern part of the continent.

Claude thought that sometimes the way the world fought was ridiculous, that declaring war was not an immediate attack, but a reminder that we were going to fight you, clearly telling you that you had time to prepare for war and be defensive. Originally Claude thought that when the news of the declaration of war came, the Blue Feather Regiment would soon enter the offensive, but he didn't expect it for two days. Most of the Blue Feather Regiment's troops were still busy in their respective barracks, preparing for the battlefield. Legion officers have been meeting and discussing what.

Claude, with his guard squadron, has been helping in the canteen of the barracks for two days, rushing dry military food and making military black bread. The orders were to prepare dry food for the entire battalion for 15 days, calculated on black bread as long as one soldier's elbow for three days, five military black breads for half a month, and nearly 6,000 military black breads for the entire battalion. In addition, there are other nutritious food configurations, such as small salt boxes, cheese cream, dried meat powder, a small piece of butter, and some dried fruit.

A small portion of these dry military food items are carried by soldiers, but most of them are transported to heavily logistical departments, where food is distributed essentially once every three days. However, this belongs to eating on the march or in battle. If it is a permanent presence or preparation for battlefield, it is necessary to prepare hot food for the soldiers and eat a hot meal and have the strength to kill on the battlefield.

Claude was kind of an eye-opener, and he never thought war would break out before he started making dry military food. At that time, the training of his guard squadron and stretcher squadron was suspended, and orders were given that the logistics department should immediately count armaments and replenish shortfalls and shortfalls as soon as possible. So let's not say gunpowder guns, these training consumables, the basin can't be picked up for a while, we have to wait for the logistics department to do the statistics and send the inventory information.

The eleventh field battalion stationed at the Fookby Hill camp is considered to be one of the battalions where the Blue Feather Regiment has more battle and belongs to the third regiment of the First Field Division. Strangely, for the next half month, the 2nd and 4th divisions of the Blue Feather Legion were drawn to the front lines, respectively, but the first division, recognized as the strongest in the Blue Feather Legion, remained static. Many officers who are anxious to go to the battlefield and are awarded merit are asking everywhere. The orders given above are to stay well. Don't worry about asking around. There are many opportunities to go to the battlefield...

Dr. Perente had a lot of knowledge, and he heard a lot about it. This time, for example, the Army decided to strike together, and the Red Dragon Regiment, along with the Lizard Regiment, attacked the Kingdom of Nasseri in the north-west, coming from Berta Arnia. In the northeast, the Bluefeather Regiment attacked the Principality of Siddins alone from Cafelezt County, with the aim of annexing the Principality of Siddins before deciding which country to attack.

From the map, the Principality of Siddins is only as large as the seven counties of the Kingdom of Ovieras, but the Odin Mountains are the border between the two countries, a mountainous mountain and a precarious landscape. The Principality of Siddins built two defensive fronts in the Odin Mountains, claiming to be heavily guarded, without having to consider the offensive of the Kingdom of Ovilas. After all, the fortress castles on the two defensive fronts to be built in the mountains are enough to allow the enemy to return with a bloody head.

In the view of the authorities of the Principality of Siddins, even if the Kingdom of Ovilas attacked the anti-O5 alliance, the route to be taken should be that of the Kingdom of Nasri. After all, the Kingdom of Ovilas and the Kingdom of Nasri fought two wars, and there were soldiers beneath the capital of the King of Nasri, King Dokadry, both sides knew the truth. And that route is much more flat than it is on its own side, with only a hill on the border, far worse than it is on its own side, whether it's a defensive facility or a dangerous terrain.

So with these two defensive fronts, everyone up and down in the Kingdom of Siddins has always thought that they were worry-free. Although they declared war with the Kingdom of Ovieras, they thought that the war would not burn into their own territory, and they could sit and watch the kingdoms of Nasserley and Ovieras fight for their lives and their deaths. It is even believed that the war that swept the eastern part of the continent will only be delayed for a longer period, and that peace will naturally be renegotiated after the exhaustion of the fighting between the two sides, which will be added to the signing of the peace accords, so that decades of peace can be enjoyed. The cost of the so-called war is nothing more than giving the Kingdom of Nasseri some reinforcements and some supplies to fulfil its allies' responsibilities.

But the Principality of Siddins never dreamed that the Blue Feather Corps based in Cafelezt County had been fighting for the Principality of Siddins. Moreover, the main objective of the war was to seize several seaport bases from the territory of the A5 and to completely eliminate the maritime threat to the Kingdom posed by the A5 coalition fleet.

The two excellent seaports owned by the Principality of Siddins became the goal of the Kingdom of Ovilas, annexing the Kingdom of Siddins and seizing those two seaports would be tantamount to extending the eastern maritime territory of the Kingdom by more than 300 nautical miles to the east, which was almost the worst blow to the United Fleet, which could no longer send sub-fleets deep into the eastern waters of the Kingdom, posing a threat to the territory off the coast of the Kingdom.

Although the Blue Feather Regiment is one of the kingdom's field-and-class regiments, it took nine bulls and two tigers to win the battle dominance of the Army Ministry after ranking in the Guardian Regiment and the Red Dragon Regiment. The most important of these determinants is the Blue Feather Regiment, taking advantage of the convenience of being stationed near the Principality of Siddins in Caffirette County, which has been relentlessly dispatching agents and reconnaissance personnel in recent years to map out the topography of the border and to map out clearly the two defensive fronts built in the Odin Mountains by the Principality of Siddins, while also finding a secret passage behind which sporting forces can circle behind the two defensive fronts.

For the Bluefeather Regiment, just go around behind the two defensive fronts in the Odin Mountains, like peeling the shell off the egg of the Principality of Siddins, revealing the delicious yolk protein in it. There is no need to compromise soldiers by attacking those two well-equipped defensive fronts. By that time, cutting off logistical supplies from the two defence fronts of the Principality of Siddins would be enough to force the Principality of Siddins on those two fronts to surrender. As for the remaining two thirds of the plains of the Principality of Siddins, the Blue Feathers' demonstrations and sweeps cannot be stopped.

Just because the Blue Feather Regiment mastered this secret passage, the Lion Vulture Regiment, better at mountain warfare, was bitterly assigned the Red Dragon Regiment as a deputy to attack the Kingdom of Nasserley. The Alliance of Five Against the Olympics also believes that the main direction in which the Kingdom of Ovieras chose to attack should be that way, and is mobilizing and sending people to gather in the Kingdom of Nasseri. Their strategy on land is defensive counter-attacks, costly construction of defensive positions and installations in the rear, which they intend to use to gradually defend themselves against the attacks of the Royal Auvellas Army, slowly draining the blood of the enemy until they are unable to attack.

Dr. Perente was able to detect the news because the Blue Feather Regiment's second and third fielders had bypassed two defensive fronts arranged by the Principality of Siddins in the Odin Mountains, occupying the city of Vermes, the main road to the Odin Mountains. Next, the second fielder will continue to sweep the territory of the Principality of Siddins, approaching the Principality of Ivonasburg. The third and fourth fielders clamped the Odin Mountains back and forth in case the defensive forces on those two defensive fronts, which make up half the strength of the Principality of Siddins, jumped the wall and wanted to break out.

“But why did our first division stay here all the time and not pull to the front?” Claude hasn't figured it out either. And Dr. Perente said he didn't know why, and perhaps the top generals in the regiment only knew the answer, apparently for what reason.

More than a week later, we finally got the exact news that the Blue Feather Regiment's first division in the field had been staying in Kafirezt County waiting for the arrival of Prince Two. Prince Hansburg of Sterling X. Don Sterling has been sent to the Red Dragon Corps to send Prince Violet. Don Sterling was dispatched to the Blue Feather Regiment, where the two princes went to the front line to oversee the war, while also travelling to the three counties of the border to announce the Kingdom's new administrative initiatives.

In the immediate aftermath of the war, the Kingdom decided to lift the ban on three frontier counties, Kafirezt, Raston Kron and Berta Arnia, lifting military control orders for more than two decades, while drastically reducing residents' taxes and pursuing the same policies as elsewhere in the Kingdom. The only requirement is to recruit the youth of these three frontier counties and form three second-line regiments to serve the Kingdom in this great war sweeping the eastern part of the continent.

It was only then that the officers and soldiers of the First Field Division realized that they had stayed in Kafirezt County to protect the Second Prince from going to the front line. Claude followed the Eleventh Field Battalion to the Regiment Battalion, as Prince Widreck would hold a parade at the Regiment Battalion to examine the officers and soldiers of the First Division before proceeding to the Odin Mountains to conduct a collective surrender ceremony for the guarded forces on the two defensive fronts of the Principality of Siddins there...